On a Sunday evening, leaders were in Raleigh hosting a drag brunch — scheduled for the same hour most of their rural voters ...

Learn more in The N&O’s higher education newsletter about a new law allowing UNC System schools to offer lower tuition to ...

Johnson was part of a group of 26 students who were the first to desegregate three county schools in 1963. Albemarle County Public Schools named and recognized these students for the first time ...

Both Charlottesville and Western Albemarle high schools will welcome new principals this summer. Aaron Bissonnette is expected to join the staff at Charlottesville on June 1. John W. Werner will ...

ALBEMARLE, N.C — The Albemarle Police Department arrested Alex Jamies Meras, 23, following a deadly shooting on Monday.

The Democratic governor said the legislature “wants to distract us by stoking culture wars that further divide us.” ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

The first phase, projected at $60 million, would focus on perimeter security improvements and new construction.

Four people — a mother and her three children, according to Facebook — were killed late Tuesday in the Stony Point area of Albemarle County in what police say was an apparent murder-suicide.